alemart/opensurge

Assetfs symlinks

jetomit opened this issue · 2 comments

jetomit commented

Hi,

I’m trying to package opensurge for Guix. It would be nice to use the distribution-provided fonts where possible, so I tried replacing the bundled copies with links to system fonts. It turns out that assetfs ignores symlinks (since 80f201d), so this doesn’t work.

Is there a particular reason for disallowing symlinks? Removing bundled fonts avoids having duplicated files on the system, and allowing symlinks would make that much easier.

Thanks!

alemart commented

The reason for blocking symlinks was to disallow scripts from accessing the filesystem beyond the scope of the game. It turns out that at the time of that commit, I wasn't aware of your use case.

I have submitted code that fixes this particular issue, so let me know if it works for you.

jetomit commented

This fixed the issue. I’ll wait for the next release to submit the package, and let you know when it gets accepted. Thanks!